Project Progress Summary
This week, we have transitioned to our new Arty Z7000 FPGA platform, resolving previous board-specific issues. We have achieved full verification of the 6502 CPU core, and established a high fidelity validation workflow for the PPU. Our progress has moved from individual module logic to physical output. In addition, all team members completed the individual ethics assignment, and had a team discussion on the potential ethical risks in our project concept.
Design Changes
Following our hardware testing in the last few weeks, we have officially moved from the Zedboard to the Arty Z7000 platform. While the core architecture remains the same, this change ensures better compatibility with our target peripherals and simplifies the ROM loader implementation.
Risk & Management
The primary risk is still achieving perfect synchronization between the CPU and PPU modules. We are managing this by using open source tests as golden models for cycle by cycle comparison during integration.
Schedule
The project remains on schedule. We have met our milestones for standalone CPU and PPU verification. Next week, we will begin the phase of full system integration.